How Do You Get Beyond Cancer?

Recently someone asked me how I cope with this “cancer” thing in between doctor’s visits, scares, biopsies and the like. The truth is that I do everything I can to get checked up, followed, poked and prodded and then I put it out of my mind in between. I am just programmed to be positive. It’s my nature. I don’t even know how to change it. In fact, when I am depressed, I go out and do something about it. Take a walk, clear my head, meet a girlfriend, plan a getaway, exercise, tickle my daughter, etc. It’s my unique system to immediately get myself OUT of that head space.

I have had so many biopsies, so many abnormal tests, that I have worked up some sort of “Teflon” coating while I await the results. I don’t even miss a beat, stay up all night or spend more than one minute worrying about the outcome. Whatever the results are, I have learned, I will have to deal with whether I worry ahead of time or not. So, I use that time to enjoy life. I think it’s a pretty good system. At least it works for me. How do you get beyond cancer?

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Suzette Lipscomb

Suzette Lipscomb has done the cancer dance twice in her young life. Originally diagnosed with an aggressive form of invasive ductal breast cancer at 36, she endured six long months of chemotherapy and then...read more